Sentences with phrase «impersonal ordering of nature»

Placher's Sam, one might suggest, died of inexorable physiological causes written into the impersonal ordering of nature, ultimately by the Deity.

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Spinoza merely secularized the God of Aquinas and Calvin by equating him with the impersonal, but equally static and equally timeless, order of nature (Deus sive natura); and Laplace's «omniscient mind» is nothing but a secularized and depersonalized version of the God of the Scholastics and of the Protestant Reformation.
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